Hire Tony Hull for 10th assistant coach at Michigan
He's a RB coach which we need and has ties to south where he has been able to get 4 star talent to go to Kansas.
http://www.espn.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/118482/tony-hull-engineers-lou…
But we already have a RB coach, albeit with limited experience
I assume Jay Harbaugh could do special teams which is what he did in the nfl I think.
Chris Partridge is the special teams coach. Wouldnt be smart to do anything that might tick him off when hes been the best recruiter in the nation since he's been here
I guess put him back at TE or maybe he can coach WRs with Pep. We're going to have multiple guys at a position regardless of who we hire. You probably only want one guy at RB and DL. I like the proven coaching ability of the guys we have in Pep, Frey, Mattison etc. I do think we need more guys like Partridge who can recruit since we lost Fisch and Wheatley.
Can't do that either as Frey has tackles and tight ends.
not only would it give them a lead in to evaluate a guy up close to eventually replace him, but they'd also get back Tuioti's Poly ties on the recruiting front.
Win-Win
I think moving him around is a great idea. Being only a couple years out of high school, he is still learning the college game. Giving him experience at several different positions will put him in the best postion to move to a coordinator position in the future. Many of the other position coaches are over qualified for their position and can help with all of the overlap.
That's what Harbaugh is doing. He is exposing Partridge to various position groups. Give him time - a coordinator isn't built in a day.
I'd be all for it
I kind of feel like Jay at RB coach is not a good fit. Not sure what youd do with jay though
Im sure it would help us in recruiting if we had a coach with actual RB coaching expierence. The high 4-5 star running backs would surely like to work with a coach with expierence over one without it
State fans mocked Jay as TE coach when Harbs took over. Then AJ Williams stopped sucking as a blocker and Jake Butt became a 2-time AA.
Idk if we can credit him for Butts success
But we could blame him if Butt didn't succeed?
IIRC, Williams' weakness was in the pass-catching part of the game. Then the elder Harbaugh said, "Please run faster, AJ"--and he did!
To Harbaugh was as bad as this thread.
I kind of feel like Jay has coaching in his genes. I don't know. These summer couch coaching sessions neeeeever get old.
Not too long ago, the plan was to hire a WR coach. However, JH has said that he will hire the best coach available. I wouldn't be surprised if he came from the NFL ranks.
So... Bill Belichick to Michigan? He'd look good patrolling the sideline in a cutoff Michigan hoodie.
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How do you know we need a RB coach? Jay Harbaugh has been a good coach at every position he had tried.
The one position we have not been able to reel in the top end recruits is running back. It may be by ranking only as evans was undervalued obviously. I really don't know if this is because of who is our coach is at that position. I also dont know how good of a recruiter Jay Harbaugh is. I do know he is the head coaches son and thus will never be given a pink slip. We barely missed on Harris, but if we could somehow reel in Noah Cain in the 2019 class I don't think anyone will be concerned who are running backs coach is. I also think Turner this year is going to be a good one and his ranking will only go up and he is allready in the espn 300.
I mean we had Wheatley before, I'd say he was pretty high caliber in coaching and recruiting. Not sure we could do a whole lot better than him for a position coach. So if our RB recruiting has been stalling (and I'm not saying it has) then I don't think that's why
RB is definitely not a weak position group.
is one of the least important holes to fill.
A good coach, a great recruiter, etc. etc. That should be the priority.
I think 5* running backs will be more likely to come to michigan when we have an offensive line made up of better players, that make holes 3 & 4 stars can run though.
We've had (& still have) highly ranked running backs on this team that still haven't done shit.
It's ALL about the O-line.
Jeremy Langford was rated outside of the Top 1000 on the composite.
Leveon Bell was rated outside of the Top 1800 on the composite.
Javon Ringer was rated a 3 star and the 13th player in Ohio.
Build and coach the OL and any running back with D1 offers can become All-Conference.
As you said, the RB position is almost entirely dependent on the OL.
In any sense, to suggest that we've struggled to reel in highly rated running backs is ridiculous. Derrick Green 5*, Ty Isaac 5*, Kareem Walker high 4*.
Agreed. We have had success recruiting highly rated running backs, a thing you don't even need if your OL is good.
The Broncos changed running backs like I change my socks (yearly) and it didn't matter. 1000 yard plus rusher every year.
Emmit Smith Dallas Cowboys vs Berry Sanders Detroit Lions.
I could of run behind Dallas and got 3 yards a carry. Barry Sanders would have shattered the rushing record in half the time it would of been untouchable if he was in Dallas.
I think Barry and Emmit were both great backs who had very good lines to run behind. I think Emmits were a bit better bit to say Barry had bad olines in front of him his while career is not true.
Exactly, it's funny how good that line became when Emmitt got behind. Before that they were a bunch of castoffs. Not to mention he missed two games after the first Superbowl in a holdout, they lost both and couldn't run the ball.
Berry good!
Agreed
here's another article on Tony Hull... what he's done at KState has been very impressive... can only imagine that he'd be able to bring that success to Michigan...
I think Hull could help us a lot recruting in the south
https://www.si.com/college-football/2017/02/20/kansas-jayhawks-recruiti…
edit - sorry, didn't realize the OP was just speculating...
fwiw....the 10th coach will be Jordan Kovacs. I played golf with one of his former coaches 2 weeks ago...obviously nothing more than I know a guy who knows a guy, but sounded very sure.